Eric@CherryOnTop
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- Jun 23, 2012
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Hey guys, been absent from detailing for some time now dealing with my 7 month old. I was finally able to schedule a car for some love. This one is a referral from the blue Plymouth race car I worked on last year. The owner did a full frame off restoration on this car, all powder coated underneath, 455 with an automatic and full 3" exhaust (sounds EVIL!) and then had a nice paint job done about a year ago. It's a black or maybe midnight blue with metal flake but you would never know looking at it. He told me he thought it had a haze and just needed the "final buff" which the body shop never did.
He brought it by for an inspection and I thought it might need a little bit more than that. It had swirls and scratches all over, and holograms EVERYWHERE! I explained to him why the car looked the way it did and that he would most likely not be satisfied if he brought it back to the body shop for them to "buff" it. After discussing some options, he decided that he spent all the money on the restoration to make the car right, and he wanted to spend what it would cost to get the paint in tip top shape. We were going to do a 2 step correction and then finish with a show car paste wax.
The car arrived on a really cloudy day, so you can't really see many of the defects. You can notice that the paint is just overall dull and lacking in "pop." I washed with ONR and clayed with a medium grade clay towel with ONR as lube.
It doesn't look all that bad right? Well.... LED inspection lights might tell you otherwise...
The holograms were terrible. I did a 50/50 test spot with a Griots G21, FAST microfiber pad and HD Adapt ran at speed 4 for 4 passes:
I would say I got about 80% correction out of this and it finished pretty much LSP ready (I did another test spot with HD polish on a yellow Griots pad and couldn't tell any difference between that and the section that was only compounded). I decided that I wanted more correction and compound haze wasn't a concern because I was planning on a second step anyway. I stepped up to Meguiars M101 on the same machine / pad setup. I don't have any in process pictures of this but this got me to 90-95% correction. I did my second step with HD Polish as described. My wax of choice for this driven but garage kept muscle car was none other than Fuzion!
Here are my completed shots:
I hand polished the bumpers with Chemical Guys Metal Wax and did the tires with Blackfire AIO Tire/Trim protectant. It left the perfect finish on these tires, can't have greasy high gloss tires on a muscle car
Thanks for looking!!!
He brought it by for an inspection and I thought it might need a little bit more than that. It had swirls and scratches all over, and holograms EVERYWHERE! I explained to him why the car looked the way it did and that he would most likely not be satisfied if he brought it back to the body shop for them to "buff" it. After discussing some options, he decided that he spent all the money on the restoration to make the car right, and he wanted to spend what it would cost to get the paint in tip top shape. We were going to do a 2 step correction and then finish with a show car paste wax.
The car arrived on a really cloudy day, so you can't really see many of the defects. You can notice that the paint is just overall dull and lacking in "pop." I washed with ONR and clayed with a medium grade clay towel with ONR as lube.
It doesn't look all that bad right? Well.... LED inspection lights might tell you otherwise...
The holograms were terrible. I did a 50/50 test spot with a Griots G21, FAST microfiber pad and HD Adapt ran at speed 4 for 4 passes:
I would say I got about 80% correction out of this and it finished pretty much LSP ready (I did another test spot with HD polish on a yellow Griots pad and couldn't tell any difference between that and the section that was only compounded). I decided that I wanted more correction and compound haze wasn't a concern because I was planning on a second step anyway. I stepped up to Meguiars M101 on the same machine / pad setup. I don't have any in process pictures of this but this got me to 90-95% correction. I did my second step with HD Polish as described. My wax of choice for this driven but garage kept muscle car was none other than Fuzion!
Here are my completed shots:
I hand polished the bumpers with Chemical Guys Metal Wax and did the tires with Blackfire AIO Tire/Trim protectant. It left the perfect finish on these tires, can't have greasy high gloss tires on a muscle car
Thanks for looking!!!
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